Fix: Make the TypedPython develop CI deterministic

.github/workflows/typedpython.yml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
           uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python "pyrefly==1.3.2" pytest
 
       - name: Behaviour tests
-        run: .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q -m "not measurement"
+        run: .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q -m "not measurement and not race_mutant"
 
       - name: Measurements (recorded, sanity bounds only)
         # A shared runner is not an idle machine (AGENTS.md §8): read ratios, not absolute times.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
         # only (tools/sanitizers.py env prints it); the gate's pyrefly runs without it.
         run: |
           env $(.venv/bin/python tools/sanitizers.py env) \
-            .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q -m "not measurement" \
+            .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q -m "not measurement and not race_mutant" \
               src/test/python/test_cgen.py src/test/python/test_runtime.py src/test/python/test_pipeline.py
 
   app-fixture:

python-multiplatform-ksp/pyproject.toml

@@ -30,4 +30,7 @@ test = ["pytest"]
 testpaths = ["src/test/python"]
 pythonpath = ["src/main/python"]
 addopts = "--basetemp=.pytest_tmp"
-markers = ["measurement: records cost; asserts only sanity bounds"]
+markers = [
+    "measurement: records cost; asserts only sanity bounds",
+    "race_mutant: shows a concurrency test catches a mutant; depends on the race firing, so local only (not in CI)",
+]

python-multiplatform-ksp/src/test/python/test_free_threaded.py

@@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ def _mutant(built, tmp: Path, drop: str) -> Path:
     return cbuild.build("\n".join(kept), "ftmod", tmp / drop, ext_suffix=None)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.race_mutant
 def test_mutant_without_the_array_critical_section_is_caught(built, tmp_path):
     so = _mutant(built, tmp_path, "tp_cs_begin")
     detected = False
@@ -588,6 +589,7 @@ def _racy_runtime(tmp: Path, *, drop_dict_lock: bool, plain_epoch: bool) -> Path
     return d
 
 
+@pytest.mark.race_mutant
 def test_mutant_without_the_dict_critical_section_is_caught(built, tmp_path):
     """Without the critical section around the epoch read and the global lookup, a thread can
     remember a binding the rebinding thread has already replaced (the watcher fires before the store)."""
@@ -670,7 +672,12 @@ def _tsan_reports(built, tmp: Path, launcher: Path, rt: Path | None) -> tuple[in
     run = subprocess.run([str(launcher), "-c", LOADER + textwrap.dedent(TSAN_SCRIPT), str(so), "1"],
                          capture_output=True, text=True, env=env, timeout=600)
     out = run.stdout + run.stderr
-    return out.count("WARNING: ThreadSanitizer"), "TSAN-RUN-DONE" in out
+    # The interpreter is not instrumented, so TSan also reports races between two accesses inside
+    # CPython itself (seen on Linux CI). Count only reports with a frame of the extension or the
+    # header: those are the accesses this test is about.
+    blocks = out.split("WARNING: ThreadSanitizer")[1:]
+    ours = [b for b in blocks if "ftmod" in b or " tp_" in b]
+    return len(ours), "TSAN-RUN-DONE" in out
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")

python-multiplatform-ksp/src/test/python/test_importgate.py

@@ -89,8 +89,10 @@ def test_clean_module_imports_and_is_cached_by_content(project, calls):
     assert len(calls) == 1, "an unchanged module must not be checked again"
 
     del sys.modules["good_mod"]
-    path.write_text("VALUE: int = 2\n")
-    assert importlib.import_module("good_mod").VALUE == 2
+    # a different length: CPython's .pyc check compares mtime in whole seconds and the size, so a
+    # same-size rewrite within one second would run the stale bytecode (CPython's own behaviour)
+    path.write_text("VALUE: int = 22\n")
+    assert importlib.import_module("good_mod").VALUE == 22
     assert len(calls) == 2, "changed content must be re-checked"